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the city clerk cluster job after that. abilene were asking for another florist, a town we could extend free finlandia's to anyone. i believe it's a small number. in time this issue comes before the court the people the kind of fund 10% of people like eddies. it's a very small, tiny number. melson of in indiana and georgia , turnout has gone up with a minority in the overall turnout not just in the 2008 obama election but the midterm election. if there are people out there in light of a bloody let's cut the one. you can't participate in the mainstream american life of a melody. travel, check into tell, cash a check, antar government building, rent a video. he can hardly do anything. instead the critics rather than try to help people get ideas simply yell racism further exacerbating the racial political tensions. chris dodd who crafted a bipartisan lecturer -- reform bill after the florida miltown was quoted as saying the goal of american law should be to make it easy to vote and hard to achieve. we are americans. we can do
the city clerk cluster job after that. abilene were asking for another florist, a town we could extend free finlandia's to anyone. i believe it's a small number. in time this issue comes before the court the people the kind of fund 10% of people like eddies. it's a very small, tiny number. melson of in indiana and georgia , turnout has gone up with a minority in the overall turnout not just in the 2008 obama election but the midterm election. if there are people out there in light of a bloody...
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that's part of the burden that the city has to bear for being the capital city. and, of course, sometimes when the state wants to do something it doesn't necessarily follow the typical ordinances that most businesses and residents have to apply, comply with state, you know, city ordinances don't miss it should apply to the state. so that can be a friction point on location but we try to work through those things. and understand that with the benefits of being the capital city far outweigh some of the downsides that we deal with. the biggest challenge is always jobs, and i think that's true of any community. you've been around the last week. you see what we have to offer for augusta. it's a vibrant community with a lot going on. with a brand hospital coming online. we will have a brand-new courthouse, commerce center down the road, major construction. we're going to have some big construction projects on the interstate that are going to make traffic movement. with commercial development going on in the city. and last year during the census of 2010 we gained of alm
that's part of the burden that the city has to bear for being the capital city. and, of course, sometimes when the state wants to do something it doesn't necessarily follow the typical ordinances that most businesses and residents have to apply, comply with state, you know, city ordinances don't miss it should apply to the state. so that can be a friction point on location but we try to work through those things. and understand that with the benefits of being the capital city far outweigh some...
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the pending a which city you are in. i know teachers would love to engage the children with conversations to elicit good writing those that wave their hands they sound like they are dying. [laughter] you have to call on them. you have to because you do not want them to die. [laughter] little ones especially our squirmy little people and only have a theoretical connection with their chairs [laughter] they want to ask something exciting if you this said then you can say that is wonderful. stop and righted down. now you have something to write about one teacher said what if the curriculum cops coveted and catch me? the two-tier in new york manage to the principal's office said i have never seen my a student so excited when we were talking about the principle said is excitement on the ninth grade exam? will the kids of the am i and publix schools and private schools are encouraged to ask questions that is what the teachers want to said pour are a been trained to spell out the digested dancers. so the race is more than before
the pending a which city you are in. i know teachers would love to engage the children with conversations to elicit good writing those that wave their hands they sound like they are dying. [laughter] you have to call on them. you have to because you do not want them to die. [laughter] little ones especially our squirmy little people and only have a theoretical connection with their chairs [laughter] they want to ask something exciting if you this said then you can say that is wonderful. stop...
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but i will give you an example in two of the largest cities where they are the largest cities in los angeles and new york i hope i'm right the school department's right now are not just reading teachers on the basis of tests. they listen to the press to the newspapers and the ratings of the teachers rated from zero to 10100 is the best fighting -- the best i think. based on the exams and the l.a. times and "the new york post" or printing them. the teacher has 20 children in a class of 40 to read it doesn't matter a quarter of the kids didn't even come to the class in the middle of the years. the teacher sees her name with the words and effective mediocre, rotten apple, that's "the new york post," that's happening right now. it's nothing more than a shaming ritual, but it's the purpose to drive the stake into the hearts of teachers and drive the best ones who refuse to teach the test out of educational together is certainly is the test. i wish the president would condemn this assault on the dignity of teachers dillinger his heparin with all of the authority that he has to command he d
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i'm sorry, first jane in new york city. >> that afternoon. i appreciate you. you raised the question of of only one woman being in the book. you did not answer that question and i would like to revisit it. my concern is that there is only one woman. there are several women inventors. why out of all african american inventors fair, white is there only one -- why is there only one -- and all only one -- and all the ones we did during black history month, okay, joy, thanks. >> the ones that we were able to work fine, -- the ones we were able to find, of course, there could be a book on women inventors. all the other ones we thought were significant and we didn't want to exclude women. so we made sure that we had our women's invention. the woman whose future. >> you are also very involved in education, which is a big effort to get science technology and math and engineering and the like. is this in concert without ever? >> yes, i think that is a fact that all the people that are heroes in this book, they are mathematicians and engineers and, a chemist and other pe
i'm sorry, first jane in new york city. >> that afternoon. i appreciate you. you raised the question of of only one woman being in the book. you did not answer that question and i would like to revisit it. my concern is that there is only one woman. there are several women inventors. why out of all african american inventors fair, white is there only one -- why is there only one -- and all only one -- and all the ones we did during black history month, okay, joy, thanks. >> the ones...
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the city is now the capital of maine. booktv visited the city with the help of our partner, time warner, to explore the historical and literary atmosphere. >> i think people like to read a variety. beaucoup enjoyed reading stephen king's books. and you have people that like reading about small-town maine. readers also like nonfiction stories about people similar to them. you know, they want to read stories about states that are landlocked. so i'm not sure they are typical readers, but i think my same thing, there are people who want a good story. you know? and not a pretentious story. i think you often see people who may be wealthy, but they all wear flannel shirts and they don't show off their wealth. they want people who are true people want stories about simple people who go about their lives. they take from what they know. writers in maine take from what they know. they write about what mars and families and historical things that have happened. they love their sea stories. they're real stories about the past. joshua
the city is now the capital of maine. booktv visited the city with the help of our partner, time warner, to explore the historical and literary atmosphere. >> i think people like to read a variety. beaucoup enjoyed reading stephen king's books. and you have people that like reading about small-town maine. readers also like nonfiction stories about people similar to them. you know, they want to read stories about states that are landlocked. so i'm not sure they are typical readers, but i...
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the chilly, as you know, leveled the city in 1982. then had no more problems. bashar has been different, engaged in this sort, as you call it to mike a million. they kill about 20,000 people. but it's still 20,000 people dead faugh. mark did not kill 20,000 people in egypt. a few people were killed, but it was nothing like that. how did he make that final step over to the dark side? i will kill, i will kill until i am no longer challenge because he must know, as everyone in the keating must know, there is no going back. their minority in syria. if they lose power there will be slaughtered. had this to make that final step? >> well, one of the main point is that they see that as an existential conflict. this is something that there is no turning back on the side right now. for me the answer to that is to fold. it won, i take you really still believes from day one that he is saving the country, that he is protecting the country from chaos, even though his policies are, in fact, during quite the opposite. but i really believe he thinks that what to and that is jus
the chilly, as you know, leveled the city in 1982. then had no more problems. bashar has been different, engaged in this sort, as you call it to mike a million. they kill about 20,000 people. but it's still 20,000 people dead faugh. mark did not kill 20,000 people in egypt. a few people were killed, but it was nothing like that. how did he make that final step over to the dark side? i will kill, i will kill until i am no longer challenge because he must know, as everyone in the keating must...
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that barely covers the annual sushi budget for your average city liberal. but it is a really nice vacation for your average american family. how they manage to keep the cost down and the customers coming? former walmart ceo least got appeared a few years back. he as to what it was like to work. a terrific story about him. >> when i didn't perform, sam would have a direct conversation with you. >> what is a direct conversation? >> you go around the room of friday morning meeting. twenty people in that room in 1980. >> a year after you join. >> a year after i joined, sitting in this meeting. all the offices of the company. sam would have of p and l, profit and loss statement that was not particularly good. he would say, scott, your driver uniform costs were up 30% this month. what's going on? and you better know. the interesting thing was the holocaust for jurors uniforms is like $1,500. >> with that amount of money meant something to him. >> you're darn right it did. and it taught me what that meant . >> tell that story as your average liberal. talk about th
that barely covers the annual sushi budget for your average city liberal. but it is a really nice vacation for your average american family. how they manage to keep the cost down and the customers coming? former walmart ceo least got appeared a few years back. he as to what it was like to work. a terrific story about him. >> when i didn't perform, sam would have a direct conversation with you. >> what is a direct conversation? >> you go around the room of friday morning...
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you heard i grew up in a big city like washington, d.c. or a baltimore or silver springs or alexander. i grew up on a farm in rural alabama about 50 miles from montgomery. outside of a little place called troy. my father was a sharecropper but in 1944 when i was only 4-years-old, my father saved $300 he bought 110 acres of land and there was a lot of cotton and corn, peanuts, cows and chickens. on the form of was my responsibility to care for the chickens and i fell in love with raising chickens like no one else could raise chickens. does anyone else anything about raising chickens? can i see your hands? okay let's have a little fun this afternoon. [laughter] they're able to place them on the setting hand for the chicks to hatch some of you may be saying what were they able to? from time to time it began and you had to have fresh eggs. do you follow me? it's okay. it's all right. the chick would hatch i would take them and put them in a box with a lantern and raise them on their own or give them to another hen and do this for another three
you heard i grew up in a big city like washington, d.c. or a baltimore or silver springs or alexander. i grew up on a farm in rural alabama about 50 miles from montgomery. outside of a little place called troy. my father was a sharecropper but in 1944 when i was only 4-years-old, my father saved $300 he bought 110 acres of land and there was a lot of cotton and corn, peanuts, cows and chickens. on the form of was my responsibility to care for the chickens and i fell in love with raising...
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when we had gone out together in that city anyone approaching us would always come straight to me. when he would cut in with his native german well, that gentleman but dam near died surprised. most didn't like it though. a savage talking like he is civilized. he would see that old glint in her eye like a knife turning. we fled to paris to out run all of that but we knew it wouldn't fend off the chaos forever. ain't no man can outrun his fate. sometimes when i looked out through the curtains staring into the emptiness, i would see old berlin. i would see that night when all of the class on our streets shattered. we had been in the flat, messing it up and when we drifted over to the curtains, it's like looking down on a carnival. crowds in the firelight, broken bottles. we had gone down after a minute and it was like walking on a gravel path all of them shards crunching at each step. the synagogue of the block was on fire. we watched firemen standing with their backs to the flames, spraying water on all the other buildings to keep the fire from spreading, you see. i remember the crow
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. >> amazing underwater city. hauer lee was the publicity about wamu and i assume the political reports. >> so, wamu had a big blowup in 2004 that wasn't really hurt about but what happened is we spoke a little bit about how they basically had no infrastructure at the bank. they were operating on 12 different mortgage systems. all of that emerged around 2004 when they began basically trying to foreclose on homeowners who had actually pay their mortgage and the reason they did that is because they literally forgot to tell someone to go open the security boxes and pick up the homeowners checks. this is how bad it got. so the state started suing and all the analysts started writing reports saying they can't run a mortgage operation. this is what forced kerry killinger to get a president and chief operating officer. and that got bad publicity before. i think it was pretty bad and early 2007. that is different than the press. thank you you for your buck. i am a loan officer of 21 years' experience in seattle, and i can
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i never -- really the tea party was so decentralized it was city by cities. there's sometimes two tea parties in one town and they don't communicate with each other. there's no top down. this was bottom-up movement and a movement that really chastised both parties. we were unhappy -- a lot of us were very unhappy with republicans, when president bush said, to save the free market, i had to give up on the free market. i had to give up on capitalism. that disturbed a lot of souse we were unhappy with republicans and democrats and really felt like we needed something different. >> you write in here that in addition to being called a tea partyer or a constitutional conservative, i've also been called a goldwater conservative by supporters and critics. it is both accurate and an honor to be described as such. >> when i got started i re-read the conscience of the conservative, and interestingly it was actually first published in kentucky, right outside of louisville, and i went and met the publisher and he gave me an original coach and i re-read it. >> and when you
i never -- really the tea party was so decentralized it was city by cities. there's sometimes two tea parties in one town and they don't communicate with each other. there's no top down. this was bottom-up movement and a movement that really chastised both parties. we were unhappy -- a lot of us were very unhappy with republicans, when president bush said, to save the free market, i had to give up on the free market. i had to give up on capitalism. that disturbed a lot of souse we were unhappy...
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we continue to get materials from his office in the law firm in new york city, and it's still getting awards and generating material for his career and so they come to rest over time. in 1990 having just been elected the senate majority leader, mitchell was involved in the 1990 amendments to the act and this is a letter from george h. w. bush thanking him for his collaboration and succeeding in getting that legislation passed. the 1990 amendment was important for us today. we paid $4 a gallon for gas in the sense that it was the amendment that discussed the composition of gas and the introduction of chemicals during certain seasons of the year in order to make for cleaner air. in a sample of his writing style. there are researchers to come because they're interested in particular topics but there's also people that come because the interested in particular techniques or approaches. some people are interested in the newspapers because of the negotiation for instance. and so this is a research question that bridges a variety of the records that we have and others are interested in his r
we continue to get materials from his office in the law firm in new york city, and it's still getting awards and generating material for his career and so they come to rest over time. in 1990 having just been elected the senate majority leader, mitchell was involved in the 1990 amendments to the act and this is a letter from george h. w. bush thanking him for his collaboration and succeeding in getting that legislation passed. the 1990 amendment was important for us today. we paid $4 a gallon...
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policies, his approach to politics, his achievements and his troubled marketing this achievement in a city that has gone bonkers. also the best way to understand his enemies. this book documents the republican plot to destroy obama before he even took office. you always heard about it and imagine it must be there but i got these guys to tell me about it. these secret meetings where eric cantor and mitch mcconnell plan their paths to power. before i open this up to what you want to talk about i want to talk about the stimulus because it is a new new deal and a bit about obama because there's more and less to him than meets the eye. i spent nine years as a reporter at the washington post before i escaped the belt way with my florida girl. government is not a new topic for me. i did not think i could have written this book if i still lived in washington. the group think is too strong and it is almost impossible to overstate the power of the conventional wisdom that the stimulus was a ludicrous failure and totally uncool to talk about it without ruling rise and making ironic comments. you tota
policies, his approach to politics, his achievements and his troubled marketing this achievement in a city that has gone bonkers. also the best way to understand his enemies. this book documents the republican plot to destroy obama before he even took office. you always heard about it and imagine it must be there but i got these guys to tell me about it. these secret meetings where eric cantor and mitch mcconnell plan their paths to power. before i open this up to what you want to talk about i...
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which, in the world, a lot of the action takes place in cities away from me, washington, london, berlin. but i did visit a few places. i went to rent to pay, for example. i have a chapter on the development of the atomic bomb. santa fe was an interesting place, and everyone there was wearing tweed jackets. which is terrible because it's terribly hot. [laughter] that's a great drama for me. so i went and looked around, i went to walk around the streets. >> i wondered what the material, when they talk about what will come if you actually gone to buffalo. >> oh, yes, of course. the other thing was 100 years ago it was a very different place. nevertheless, i went there and looked around. but i got a hold of the buffalo blue bow, which is a list of the high society people in town. >> going around is never enough but it's a very good basis. >> doesn't give you a feel for that? >> yes, yes, that's correct. >> are you able to do all of your own research like this? >> i have to do it myself other people would know what i was using it for. and i do have help in finding stuff. i have a gentleman w
which, in the world, a lot of the action takes place in cities away from me, washington, london, berlin. but i did visit a few places. i went to rent to pay, for example. i have a chapter on the development of the atomic bomb. santa fe was an interesting place, and everyone there was wearing tweed jackets. which is terrible because it's terribly hot. [laughter] that's a great drama for me. so i went and looked around, i went to walk around the streets. >> i wondered what the material,...
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i was chairing an elected commission in los angeles to revise the city charter, and i saw then that he not only was amazingly talented, but a reporter of enormous integrity. at one point he believed the los angeles times was not devoting nearly enough time to charter reform, it was important to the city, and according to los angeles weekly, he quit his position at the los angeles times in protest over this. he put his very job on the line because he believed in the importance of the story. he was then and is now an enormous star of the los angeles times. and as a result of that, the los angeles times decided to change it approach and gave tremendous attention to charter reform. i will always believe that charter reform succeeded in 1999 in los angeles because of what jim newton did and the covers of the l.a. times. a few years ago he mentioned to me he was planning to take some time off to do a biography of earl warren. i thought it was a great idea. and then i had the chance to read the book, and without a doubt it's the best judicial biography that i've ever read. so i'm thrilled tha
i was chairing an elected commission in los angeles to revise the city charter, and i saw then that he not only was amazingly talented, but a reporter of enormous integrity. at one point he believed the los angeles times was not devoting nearly enough time to charter reform, it was important to the city, and according to los angeles weekly, he quit his position at the los angeles times in protest over this. he put his very job on the line because he believed in the importance of the story. he...
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they're smaller cities with women editors but that's the only major newspaper. and there are no women heads of the network news departments or the cable news departments. so that's what you're up against. yes? [inaudible] and so with the younger women are saying are more the appearance based which seems to me getting worse all the time in the way it depicts women. so you don't even see a print article anymore for a lot of -- you see a face of a woman. [inaudible] >> just these major news organizations are basically in print, especially dying as network news, so the new media that is now coming up is much more what, you mean with the celebrities, celebrity obsessed it i have to say, i think i'm reading now a lot of young women's blogs on sites because i sort of could understand either. but -- stomac [inaudible] boring and unattractive and whatever. and so, and they're really into celebrity culture. but if you look at, if you look at jezebel or you look at them is, if you look at all these sites, they manage to have a lot of humor, a lot of celebrities. but they a
they're smaller cities with women editors but that's the only major newspaper. and there are no women heads of the network news departments or the cable news departments. so that's what you're up against. yes? [inaudible] and so with the younger women are saying are more the appearance based which seems to me getting worse all the time in the way it depicts women. so you don't even see a print article anymore for a lot of -- you see a face of a woman. [inaudible] >> just these major news...
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looked at more, but within the confines of the vote you can only do so much but we want to diverse city. we want the democrats and republicans, two parts of the country, everyone of different ages. we knew on the basis of nine, make generalizations that are 100% certain and our collusions are hypotheses -- we needed a fairly diverse group. >> we also included women, the white house project in the election cycle -- a libya snow and kathleen sibelius were in there. we also wanted to consider this notion and several years ago, which last round of madame president, talking about looking at women governors. we wanted to look at women governors who have been through training as the pipeline. we also made the observation that when a male is elected to senatorship he is the immediately cast as a future presidential hopeful. scott brown hadn't even been sworn in in massachusetts and scottybrown.com was already purchased but so many women had been in washington so many years as legislators working on important work and yet their names never bubble to the top and we were curious why not. >> how di
looked at more, but within the confines of the vote you can only do so much but we want to diverse city. we want the democrats and republicans, two parts of the country, everyone of different ages. we knew on the basis of nine, make generalizations that are 100% certain and our collusions are hypotheses -- we needed a fairly diverse group. >> we also included women, the white house project in the election cycle -- a libya snow and kathleen sibelius were in there. we also wanted to...
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he's a senior partner at kirk land and ellis here in new york city. he's a well known commodity in the washington policy world having served with the distinction in two different administration as cabinet secretary under president george h. w. bush and directer of domestic policy. he's known throughout washington as a keen policy intellectual with incredible ability to is the acid complex issues and unparalleled efficiency. he written on great authority on many things. for our purposes today it should be noted that he serve a special envoy in the position jay was known for the fourth right criticism not simply of the north korean tyranny for tailing to do more to assist creern. jay did not spare criticism either of the folks in foggy bottom. he was well known for criticizing state department policy that seemed more concerned nuclear program on stopping the program itself or in promoting human rights in the country. with that please give a warm welcome to jay. [applause] >> thank you for the very warm introduction. it's a pleasure to be here with you t
he's a senior partner at kirk land and ellis here in new york city. he's a well known commodity in the washington policy world having served with the distinction in two different administration as cabinet secretary under president george h. w. bush and directer of domestic policy. he's known throughout washington as a keen policy intellectual with incredible ability to is the acid complex issues and unparalleled efficiency. he written on great authority on many things. for our purposes today it...
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naval expansion there's been a lot oh more from the'm of china, and pakistan is the most important city you never heard of because the chinese got a listening post there to listen to ships going in and out of the strait of hormuz and also have resource relationship with iran and sudan. and i think y'all know the human rights records of those countries and how they tend to make war on their neighbors and also we have the china daily newspaper which you can get outside. total propaganda for the people republic of china issue think the chinese sold the ideas of -- you might have studied at the naval academy but i'm wondering -- in the next few years, with our lower number of ships and the threat of sequestration over us and the con current expansion of the chinese power, how would you best manage our military resources around the world. >> thank you for the softball question. so, admiral mullen when he was at our graduation, the chief of naval operations, told us to speak truth to power. as a junior officer, not to follow unethical orders or do anything to hurt the constitution. keep that
naval expansion there's been a lot oh more from the'm of china, and pakistan is the most important city you never heard of because the chinese got a listening post there to listen to ships going in and out of the strait of hormuz and also have resource relationship with iran and sudan. and i think y'all know the human rights records of those countries and how they tend to make war on their neighbors and also we have the china daily newspaper which you can get outside. total propaganda for the...
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>> i was born in mexico in southern mexico and the little city that no one has heard of. when i mention acapulco everyone knows i'll could poke so it was a few hours away from acapulco. >> windage of parents come to the united states? >> my father came here in 1977 when i was three years old and he sent for my mother a few years later so my mother came in 1980 when i was four and a half years old. >> when did you come to the united states? >> i came to united states in 1985. >> how old were you? >> in may of 1985, i was nine and a half going on 10. >> what you tell us about coming to the united states? what was your track? >> well i have been separated from my father for eight years so when he returned to mexico and 85, my sisters and i convinced him to bring us back here because he was not going to come back to mexico and we didn't want to spend anymore time separated from him. so we begged him to bring us here and my father didn't really want to bring me because i was nine and a half and he thought i wouldn't be able to make it across the border. we had to run across il
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they could have done in the towers of tel aviv city. they have the capability and i can show you that with respect to our intelligence and to our security
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the shining city on a hill. we have time for one last question. i see a hand all the way over there. yes, sir? >> thank you for your time. if you could give a quick comment on what the map tells us about prospects for arab-israeli peace in relation to water scarcity issues in the middle east. >> turkey has all water. that is why turkey will be a great mid level power in the twenty-first century. i discussed israel for four pages in this book. that part of israel. this is where i come down to scheerer unfortunately geographic determinism. this is about territory that is very precious. despite all the technological developments. it is more precious because there are more and more people in this disputed territory. whether it is really settlers or a rising arab birth rate. it becomes harder and harder to achieve. in the last few years while we have been preoccupied with iran, is really settlement building has been rather robust. this doesn't get much news now, but facts are being created on the ground that it will be harder to reach a solution and i
the shining city on a hill. we have time for one last question. i see a hand all the way over there. yes, sir? >> thank you for your time. if you could give a quick comment on what the map tells us about prospects for arab-israeli peace in relation to water scarcity issues in the middle east. >> turkey has all water. that is why turkey will be a great mid level power in the twenty-first century. i discussed israel for four pages in this book. that part of israel. this is where i...
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when it gone out together together in that city, anyone approaching us always come straight to me. when he cut in with his native german, while, but gently dear mayor dyer surprised. most like to go. the savage tacky like a civilized. you see that old clinton arrived, like a knife turning. we fly to paris, but we know vilest sign of the chaos forever. it all meant out when his state. sometimes, when i looked up for the curtains, starting onto the emptiness, i was the old berlin. i would say that i am although class on our streets scattered. with a messing it up and when we drafted over to the curtains, it's like cooking mom on a carnival. crowds in the firelight, broken bottles. we come down after a minute. it was like walking on a gravel path. all of them shares clinching with each step. the synagogue of the block was on fire. we watched firemen standing with their backs to the playing, i'm on all the other buildings to keep the fire from spreading. a fire light was shining on the wet street. the hose water running into the drain. here and there, i seen teeth growing like opals on
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she has managed some thing in south carolina very well and, you know, she has the advantage of the city, bringing diversity to the republican party. i think given that one argument that the republican party needs diversity. >> we all kind of looked at one another when bill asked us this question because i agree, the pipeline is a little thin right now. susanna martinez, if you buy this idea that you can elect mark governor says president that we do members of congress. i think barbara lee is right. i think that is for the pipeline is likely to come from. she's articulate. she's only been in office a couple of years. every six years depending how she's groomed. i think she is the potential. elizabeth warren kind of depends on what happens in a few weeks with her. and she selected, i think she's some unutterable lookout. we just need to get more women elected. we only have 17% of congress as women right now at research has been done at the center occurred several years ago soberly to make any kind of the difference. ted todd about changing the culture is coming with the composition of con
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the city is now the capitol of maine. booktv as it did the city with the help of our partner time warner cable to explore the local literary and historical atmosphere. >> people in maine like to read a friday and i think because of people like steven king people who enjoy reading his books, and you have people that like reading about small-town maine but i think maine likes fiction, stories about their state and i think you know they want to read stories about states that are landlocked. i think if i would say anything, there are people who want a good story. you often see people in maine that may be wealthy but they were where flannel shirts and they don't show off their wealth. i think people, if i could say anything about the stories, they want people that are true, not flashy or surely so i can see them relating to this story about a simple people who go about their lives. i think the writers in maine, they take them what they know. i think writers will write about memoirs, families, historical things that have happen
the city is now the capitol of maine. booktv as it did the city with the help of our partner time warner cable to explore the local literary and historical atmosphere. >> people in maine like to read a friday and i think because of people like steven king people who enjoy reading his books, and you have people that like reading about small-town maine but i think maine likes fiction, stories about their state and i think you know they want to read stories about states that are landlocked....
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tired of his house in your city he moved. they are vidal finishes bet not -- best novel today. the last pagan emperor, is a subject that is the subject of for fastening chapters. expanding on the first person examples, and memoirs, vidal told the tale through multiple and a raiders, a device that enabled him to use pieces of a voice he developed in his essays. he was better at showing -- that are at telling and showing anyway. and first person narrative is all telling. storytelling. the book came out in 1964 with excellent reviews. it was a surprise bestseller. he returned to edgewater, wrote more essays, more political journalism and it worked in other screenplays before he returned to rome to finish his washington novel. this is simply named washington, d.c. is a family saga about political life from the new deal to the mccarthy era. at bush in early 1957, it was a step backwards, a surprisingly clunky novel written mostly in expository dialogue. there's a promising subplot in the homoerotic bond between a newspaper publisher, a young politician, but vidal is limited by the c
tired of his house in your city he moved. they are vidal finishes bet not -- best novel today. the last pagan emperor, is a subject that is the subject of for fastening chapters. expanding on the first person examples, and memoirs, vidal told the tale through multiple and a raiders, a device that enabled him to use pieces of a voice he developed in his essays. he was better at showing -- that are at telling and showing anyway. and first person narrative is all telling. storytelling. the book...
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q >> guest: we were held for two months in areas, places aroundq tehran.qq i was qmoved toq a city about 300 miles south.????? others were moved to? other places. they were obviously worried about another rescue attempt.?? after i came back in august, i believe, and never went back to the embassy. we stayed in various places. some prisons and other places around the tehran. >> host: how were you treated. >> guest: the iranians themselves, many have a narrative that says that we wer treated well. we were not. i was of the 14 months -- i was nine months in solitary confinement with very little communication with the outside world. i wasn't killed, but i was beaten up. this was not about us, this was an internal iranian matter. within the revolution, the hard-core was using us to go after its rivals. particularly, nationalist, the liberals, religious intellectuals, those who might not be hard-core for this revolution. they used us to get there marginalized
q >> guest: we were held for two months in areas, places aroundq tehran.qq i was qmoved toq a city about 300 miles south.????? others were moved to? other places. they were obviously worried about another rescue attempt.?? after i came back in august, i believe, and never went back to the embassy. we stayed in various places. some prisons and other places around the tehran. >> host: how were you treated. >> guest: the iranians...
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sheriff named steven sorensen had been ambushed at a trailer in a remote town near lancaster in the city where i was visiting mark. it was quite a violent incident according to the early reports and by then it was an hour to after we had heard the first sirens. there were choppers flying around and six or seven different police agencies were converging with the huge and rapidly escalating manhunt. mark turned to me and said this sounds like your kind of story. he was sort of half joking but when joshua trees are involved i'm usually right there. even though i do break for sand and the desert is often the main character i don't respond to every siren i hear and i don't do that kind of reporting even though the story "desert reckoning" and ironically enough. i guess i have with this book. which took eight years by the way. at any rate we started watching the coverage as it unfolded that afternoon and it turned out that the two main characters involved were very compelling to me. there was a dedicated hermit donald cook who was a suspect in the shooting and he had fled after ambushing the s
sheriff named steven sorensen had been ambushed at a trailer in a remote town near lancaster in the city where i was visiting mark. it was quite a violent incident according to the early reports and by then it was an hour to after we had heard the first sirens. there were choppers flying around and six or seven different police agencies were converging with the huge and rapidly escalating manhunt. mark turned to me and said this sounds like your kind of story. he was sort of half joking but...
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spring and mohammed acted as they do when 15 children were graffiti on the roads in the southern syrian city of toronto, the new sense was the fire, lit the fire for the uprising in the area. it was that hubris that he allowed. you know, he knows that. i mean, he admitted to me, yes, they have access. but he indicated that it was a necessary tool in dangerous neighborhoods. and that is somewhat true, but also an excuse to maintain the existing and to maintain the regime in power. so i think it is a combination of those two things. he and his supporters, three things, protecting the position, they really do believe this is for the good of the country and they are saving and mandating legitimacy of the role. and i think our policies have been quite the opposite. m3 is just a compulsive push button responds, business as usual. when there's domestic unrest, you stamp it out a nauseous how things are done. and he went along with business as usual. >> i think the question questions on the floor. go right at. >> yes, i'd like to ask you how the shiites versus sunnis figure in this relationship. >>
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traveling around the united kingdom, the cities as well as other areas. the private secretary that served to john major and margaret thatcher told me that the queen knows every inch of this country in a way that no one else does. she spends so much time meeting people that she has an understanding of what other people's lives are like. she understands what the normal human condition is. she has also spent an extraordinary amount of time honoring citizens and members of the military for exemplary service. she has had more than 400 -- 4000 honorable awards. and served at least 600 of them in person. people need pats on the back, she said. otherwise it is a very dingy world. she was 83 years old at the time and her program called for long days of meeting and greeting. her stamina was impressive. matched only by 88-year-old prince philip. whenever they go off on a trip together like that, the lord chamberlain always accompanies her to the airport. it turns around and says mind the shops. i have a real sense of how philip and elizabeth are with an expert chore
traveling around the united kingdom, the cities as well as other areas. the private secretary that served to john major and margaret thatcher told me that the queen knows every inch of this country in a way that no one else does. she spends so much time meeting people that she has an understanding of what other people's lives are like. she understands what the normal human condition is. she has also spent an extraordinary amount of time honoring citizens and members of the military for...
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shea is a senior partner at kirkland and alice here in new york city. jay is a well-known commodity in the washington policy world, having served with distinction and cabinet secretary under president george h.w. bush and mr. and cabinet secretary under president george h.w. bush and mr. and cabinet secretary under president george h.w. bush and mr. and cabinet secretary under president george h.w. bush and mr. accused of what an incredible with unparalleled efficiency. he served with great authority and issues from stem cell research to jewish version patterns in presidential elections to human rights in north korea and such "new york times," "the wall street journal" and "washington post." he's an envoy for north korea under president george w. bush. in that position, george is known for his forthright criticism assembly of the north korean, but also china for failing to do more to assist a flight to freedom. she did not spare criticism either of the folks in foggy bottom. he was well known for criticizing state department policies that seem more conc
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power in their town, not a very big town, a town nevertheless was killed because the north korea secure city police had come in to the town and decided the best way to identify who was violating the law on watching south korea television would be to kill all the power. they came to the family's home, they took hammers and hacked up the vcr they had. pulled out the tape which was frozen saw that was a south creern soap opera and took the entire family in to a prison camp. one member of that family, i believe, escaped. to give a little bit of personal testimony here, is our next speaker. .. >> four years he had effectively been on his some from the age of 12 after his father starve to death you lived as what we would call the one during the street urchin. when asked his motivation from fleeing north korea he simply replied i was hungry. like so many other refugees from north korea risking his life across the river into china there he was stopped by a good samaritan and he was fortunate it was not a chinese official sending him across the border. they said you can get help. godown the road a li
power in their town, not a very big town, a town nevertheless was killed because the north korea secure city police had come in to the town and decided the best way to identify who was violating the law on watching south korea television would be to kill all the power. they came to the family's home, they took hammers and hacked up the vcr they had. pulled out the tape which was frozen saw that was a south creern soap opera and took the entire family in to a prison camp. one member of that...
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we are working with her partner, time warner cable, to explore the city and the atmosphere. >> you have people like stephen king, people who enjoy reading his books, and we have people who like reading about small-town maine. but i think the mainers also like stories about nonfiction, stories about the state, people similar to them. and i think, you know, they want to read stories about states that are laying block. i'm not sure they are the typical reader, but if i could say anything, they are people who want a good story. you know, and not a pretentious story. i think you often see people in the state of maine who may be wealthy, but they will wear the shirts and they don't show off their wealth. they want people that are true, not flashy or chile, or even relating to the story about a simple, you know, simple people who go about their lives. the writers take from what they know. they write about memoirs and families and historical things that have happened in the state of maine. whether it is more about the sea in our connection, the state of maine has a great addition to tradition a
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for more information on other cities visited go to c-span.org/local content. antonio mendez presents "argo" in washington, d.c.,ed. it details the story of six americans who escaped from the u.s. embassy during the iran hostage crisis in 1979. the cia operation to find and get them out of the country involved cia officer antonio mendez posing as a hollywood producer scouting out location for a fake science fiction movie titled "argo." it's about thirty minutes. if we can have nerve the back come on. thank you for your patience. we have -- the reports we were getting was that the traffic around the block here was horrendous. apparently thank you, people are nodding. that's good. thank you very much. so there may be some people held up still. we'll welcome them. welcome to the international spy museum. i'm peter, the executive directer. ly ask you as a court sei those who are recording the program and the speakers to be kind enough to turn off your cell phone, pda and so forth. that would be a big help. thank you. that said we'll go ahead and come up and do the
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new york city, et cetera. thank you very much and i will hang up to listen. >> guest: thanks, ralph. i'm glad to hear our minds are in sync. mostly because i've been secretly reading your e-mail all these years and that's why --, no, i'm just kidding. two interesting questions. start with the second one first. there is very interesting correlation, we can't necessarily say whether it is causation, very hard to test this, but, if you look for instance at carjackings and compare it to the success of the muchville lied game, grand theft auto, which is all about carjacking, the two kind of go like this. carjacking plummets in terms of the real world as more and more kids are virtually carjacking in the game grand theft auto. whether that is just an accident or whether there is in fact some sense in which, if you want to have the kind of the thrill of, you know, doing something like carjacking which is referred to as thrill crime. most people do it for the kind of excitement of it, it would seem a lot more sensible
new york city, et cetera. thank you very much and i will hang up to listen. >> guest: thanks, ralph. i'm glad to hear our minds are in sync. mostly because i've been secretly reading your e-mail all these years and that's why --, no, i'm just kidding. two interesting questions. start with the second one first. there is very interesting correlation, we can't necessarily say whether it is causation, very hard to test this, but, if you look for instance at carjackings and compare it to the...
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it's not the people in city hall, it's not the, you know, reporters at the big city newspaper. it's the people who live in the community who understand the needs of that community. and, you know, a big part of for argument of "future perfect" is that if we can take all that on-the-ground expertise and local knowledge and amplify it and give people new tools so they can take that knowledge and put it to work, we have the opportunity to have a great renaissance in the day-to-day, lived experience of people if their communities. so it's a great time to be involved in that stuff. whether it involves technology or whether it's just people getting together face to face in their neighborhoods. >> host: now, ron in miami, you are on with author steven johnson. >> caller: good afternoon, gentlemen. i pose this question both to you as well as mr. peter, a friend of c-span. it has to do with the technical aspects of putting the book together. i'm trying to write a book on architecture, and i'm wondering where i can get images -- you know, purchase them for a reasonable price, of course --
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philadelphia, and so i always pay more attention to sort of passive technique just because i'm from a big city, so much attention was being paid to the vote counting and precinct targeting. so i talk to more people, and i was always shocked as a think anybody who's spent a lot of time run campaigns is that most of the people i talk you could explain to me why they did anything that they would do. like how do you know that, how do you do that? at some point they did because that some sort of rule that was really based on any research. and so i sort of when run campaigns to some degree with skepticism, the practices that were taking place and the way they were spending time, and as big as i learned about people, starting in academe who are doing the field experiments, randomized control trials, within being adopted by people in the political world, and fund more about all the innovations of data, targeting based on, basically revolutionize campaigns in the last decade. this was a major generational shift in that in addition to all the new forms of research changing, the way campaigns operate iss
philadelphia, and so i always pay more attention to sort of passive technique just because i'm from a big city, so much attention was being paid to the vote counting and precinct targeting. so i talk to more people, and i was always shocked as a think anybody who's spent a lot of time run campaigns is that most of the people i talk you could explain to me why they did anything that they would do. like how do you know that, how do you do that? at some point they did because that some sort of...
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some of it in new york as a political reporter at city hall in albany and then later as bureau chief out in the rocky mountains. c-span: would you take a little time and tell us about reporting on the funeral of elvis presley? >> guest: oh, now there is something that when i've been standing in the checkout line at the grocery store and if i really need to impress people, i just let fall that i covered elvis' funeral. and, boy, people just practically draw back with awe. it may yet turn out to be my greatest claim to fame. i was sitting in the new york city times one day when i noticed a whole no--knot of editors up around the desk having a--a great scrum of concern, you could tell. it looked sort of like an anthill that had just been stepped on. and it turns out--the new york times has a large obituary desk, and they prepare obituaries for anybody of prominence who might croak. but it turns out--you may recall that elvis presley died untimely and they were completely unprepared. now this is an enormous news organization. they have rock music critics and classical music critics and o
some of it in new york as a political reporter at city hall in albany and then later as bureau chief out in the rocky mountains. c-span: would you take a little time and tell us about reporting on the funeral of elvis presley? >> guest: oh, now there is something that when i've been standing in the checkout line at the grocery store and if i really need to impress people, i just let fall that i covered elvis' funeral. and, boy, people just practically draw back with awe. it may yet turn...
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so easter is really pushing the city starts coming out. and nixon and his attorney general, john mitchell, who actually have kind of concoct good this whole rehnquist combination, a whole another story. it is fascinating. so nixon and mitchell start to worry that they are going to lose this. nixon had a lot of trouble getting his nominees confirmed on just such a basis for this. so rehnquist professes that he actually doesn't even remember this memo. it's possible. because he doesn't remember it, he could be very unconsciously or consciously believe you didn't write it or that he wrote it at the time explains that this was -- this is justice jackson's request for a summation of his views, not of my own. not bad actually, there was no one there that could rebut that, even though their opinions expressed both ways. rehnquist was not under oath, said he submitted a better to the chairman at that point of the judiciary committee and said this is my recollection. it was justice jackson's views it as a spazzing, not my own. >> host: this is comi
so easter is really pushing the city starts coming out. and nixon and his attorney general, john mitchell, who actually have kind of concoct good this whole rehnquist combination, a whole another story. it is fascinating. so nixon and mitchell start to worry that they are going to lose this. nixon had a lot of trouble getting his nominees confirmed on just such a basis for this. so rehnquist professes that he actually doesn't even remember this memo. it's possible. because he doesn't remember...
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weekend to see more of our recent visit to augusta maine or go for more information on this and other cities visited a ibook to these local content vehicle go to c-span.org/local content. >> coming up, booktv% after words an hour-long program where we invite guest host to interview authors. this week, legal journalist john jenkins and his in his book, "the partistan" the life of william rehnquist. in it the publisher "cq" press details the early career and a 33 year supreme court tenure of the former chief justice. he talks with supreme court reporter and the biographer for justices o'connor and scalia, joan biskupic. >> host: welcome john jenkins. we are here to talk about your new book, "the partistan" the life of william rehnquist. i want to start with one general question to give our viewers a sense of who the chief justices and we william rehnquist was important. there've only been 17 chiefs, correct? tell us a little bit about the position. what's what's is the chief justice of the united states do in the importance of william rehnquist and then we will go into the chronology. yes go t
weekend to see more of our recent visit to augusta maine or go for more information on this and other cities visited a ibook to these local content vehicle go to c-span.org/local content. >> coming up, booktv% after words an hour-long program where we invite guest host to interview authors. this week, legal journalist john jenkins and his in his book, "the partistan" the life of william rehnquist. in it the publisher "cq" press details the early career and a 33 year...
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a classic old boys' network to become the chief of breast surgery at columbia hospital in new york city, one of the biggest hospitals in the country and one of the best. c-span: how many women did you think about writing about? >> guest: i interviewed dozens of women around the country. i had the luxury of time to write this book. as i said, i took a leave of absence, and initially, i thought i was going to cover the whole spectrum of women's lives: demographic, geographic, age, socioeconomic. and what i quickly discovered was, in fact, that that wasn't going to work. that was too many women, and to travel deep, you couldn't travel broad, and so it quickly narrowed to about a dozen women and then, after about a year, narrowed to seven, then five, and at the very end, my last draft, narrowed it down to three women primarily because they were women who were really committed to telling the truth. they were very honest, but also, because they would let me use their real names and the other women really didn't want their names to be used. and i recognized at the end of my book that one of th
a classic old boys' network to become the chief of breast surgery at columbia hospital in new york city, one of the biggest hospitals in the country and one of the best. c-span: how many women did you think about writing about? >> guest: i interviewed dozens of women around the country. i had the luxury of time to write this book. as i said, i took a leave of absence, and initially, i thought i was going to cover the whole spectrum of women's lives: demographic, geographic, age,...